Hafez Quotes

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.

Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun

Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere , Don't always agree it's real, Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world - Something good will happen.

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.

The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love.

We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

Laugh because that is the purest sound.

When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.

The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.

Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

I am happy even before I have a reason.

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.

I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious - So kiss me.

For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.

Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

When you educate a woman, you create a nation.

The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.

There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office